Quote from: iamnotback on April 13, 2017, 04:25:18 AM

Quote from: pooya87 on April 13, 2017, 04:17:36 AM

Quote from: JohnUser on April 12, 2017, 08:22:18 PM

So "iamnotback" lock the topic and you create this new one because he really don't came back? (not so bad in my mind when i read last post on it Wink

i think he locked that topic because of the disaster he put himself into yesterday. i mean i rarely even look at the long essays he writes but yesterday was particularly an interesting show.
it seemed like every hour he changed his mind.
it was like this:
- i bought ETH, LTC is getting dumped
- i sold ETH and bought LTC, LTC to the moon
- i sold LTC, that is a shit market i saw wedgie but they dumped, i bought ETH again
- no wait i sold ETH and bought LTC
this last one is a gem:
- ahhh, they saw my post so they dumped LTC fuck them all it is manipulated

@iamnotback i am going to go ahead and say it, you are stressing yourself out on trading my friend. stay away that doesn't seem to suit you.

Predicted the +25% blast off of LTC a couple of hours before it happened and announced it all of the forum for the benefit of all, then sold LTC at the top, bought ETH caused a rise and profited, sold ETH bought back into LTC for the second rise, sold that top and bought back into ETH and caused a second rise which is up 11%. Said LTC would continue to decline which it has.

I am so accurate that you might accuse me of being in control of the markets. Cool

Yeah I am the one who is confused about trading. Cheesy

So many dudes with sore thumbs. See the animation I provided as you resemble it.

Egotism is most definitely the disease of the incapable.

Quote from: mrverax on April 13, 2017, 02:51:19 AM

The volumes of discourse you've left here thus far teem with egotism.

I am ROTFLMAO that you the egotist who just doesn't get the meaning of what you quote:

Quote from: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1404

Im not speaking abstractly here. Ive always been more interested in doing the right thing than doing what would make me popular, to the point where I generally figure that if Im not routinely pissing off a sizable minority of people I should be pushing harder. In the language of psychology, my need for external validation is low; the standards I try hardest to live up to are those Ive set for myself. But one of the differences I can see between myself at 25 and myself at 52 is that my limited need for external validation has decreased.

And yet, there are people out there who are going to read the previous paragraph and think Oh, thats Erics ego again. The blowhard. Ive had a lot of time to get used to such reactions over the last decade, but its still hard for me not to collapse in helpless laughter at the implied degree of Not Getting It.

I think there are a couple of different reasons people tend to falsely attribute pathological, oversensitive egos to A-listers. Each reason is in its own way worth taking a look at.

The first and most obvious reason is projection. Wow, if I were as talented as Terry Pratchett, I know Id have a huge ego about it, so I guess he must. Heh. Trust me on this; he doesnt. This kind of thinking reveals a a lot about somebodys ego and insecurity, alright, but not Terrys.

Theres a flip side to projection that I think of as the Asimov game. I met Isaac Asimov just a few months before he died. Isaac had long been notorious for broadly egotistical behavior and a kind of cheerful bombast that got up a lot of peoples noses. But if you ever met him, and you were at all perceptive, you might see that it was all a sort of joke. Isaac was laughing inside at everyone who took his egotism seriously and, at the same time, watching hungrily for people who could see through the self-parody, because they might might actually be among the vanishingly tiny minority that constituted his actual peers. The Asimov game is a constant temptation to extroverted A-listers; Ive been known to fall into it myself. Its not really anybodys fault that a lot of people are fooled by it.

Another confusing fact is that though A-listers may not be about ego or status competition, they will often play such games ruthlessly and effectively when that gets them something they actually want. The something might be more money from a gig, or a night in the hay with an attractive wench, or whatever; the point is, if you catch an A-lister in that mode, you might well mistake for egotism some kinds of display behavior that actually serve much more immediate and instrumental purposes. Your typical A-lister in that situation (and this includes me, now) is blithely unconcerned that a bystander might think hes egotistical; the money or the wench or the whatever is the goal, not the approval or disapproval of bystanders.

Finally, a lot of people confuse arrogance with ego. A-listers (and I am including myself, again, this time) are, as a rule, colossally arrogant. That is, they have utter confidence in their ability to meet challenges that would humble or break most people.

Here is the background story to the above:

Quote from: iamnotback on April 12, 2017, 08:49:08 PM

Re: Speculation Rule: sell when others are irrationally optimistic or too exuberant

So many more people with sore thumbs than I thought. Lol, I was only replying to OP then all these other guys volunteer their culpability. Cheesy

P.S. I archived this page for posteriority.